I built a small python app
Cool! Wanna share?
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biofaust@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
I have only 200something titles across my GOG and Steam libraries and I have played all of them and finished 90% at least.
I may be from another generation (I am in my 40s), but I don’t get the point of spending money on a title I don’t know if I will have ever time or interest to play.
Also, this feeds stale mechanics, since most titles are bought in bulk during sales that are usually centered around game categories.
I built a small python app to use howlongtobeat, steam data and isthereanydeal to select the best next title for me to play in terms of price per hour and (steamdb-style) rating.
Flagstaff@programming.dev 8 hours ago
biofaust@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
I am trying to give it a publicly acceptable form in Streamlit before sharing it. Bare with me, it is my first ever programming endeavour and I remained without a mentor half-way into it.
Coelacanth@feddit.nu 4 hours ago
It’s a shame we can’t follow individuals around here, so please @ me whenever you do decide it’s ready to publish. I don’t want to miss it.
biofaust@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
I will save your nick in a list.
Coelacanth@feddit.nu 7 hours ago
I definitely am a victim of over purchasing during deep sales and building an insurmountable backlog, but there is also something kind of nice about having a library waiting to browse after each game just waiting to install.
Regardless though, what I really wanted to say was: I’m seconding interest in your Python app, that sounds very useful actually!
biofaust@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
To me, it is. Just shy to share something definitely only half-done, when it is my first ever programming project.
Flamekebab@piefed.social 6 hours ago
The price isn't static. If one buys during a sale then it's available whenever one feels like playing. Much like stocking up on shirts during a sale at a clothes shop - clothing options are then available at home. Of course buying games one isn't interested in would be strange behaviour but I don't think anyone else is suggesting that's normal behaviour.
Aren't most sales seasonal?
biofaust@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
On Steam there are category sales much more often (right now TPS Fest).
I buy at historical lows via Isthereanydeal any time of the year anyway.
And just like weight and fashion changes for shirts, I may change my schedule and interests not to fit games I bought years ago.
Flamekebab@piefed.social 4 hours ago
I know they exist (the sales by topics) but my emphasis was on "most".
Where one draws the line on min/maxing is deeply personal. I'm happy to take a risk that my tastes will remain close enough to justify the purchase, evidently you feel otherwise. Neither of us are wrong (other than you, obviously - we're arguing on the internet so I need to be needlessly confrontational, it's the law or some old charter or something).
I was mostly replying because I don't think your way is wrong but I don't think mine is either. I have at least a thousand games in my collection. Unless something really enticing is released that calls to me (rare) then I always have fresh experiences waiting in my library. It's probably cost a few thousand pounds over nearly twenty years and I feel that's a reasonable trade-off to have that facility.
It's not the result of frivolous spending or poor impulse control. It's a deliberate choice to min/max in a different direction. I too use IsThereAnyDeal and slowly hoover up titles that I've got my eye on. I rarely immediately play things I pick up!
biofaust@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Of course, I am not asserting any superiority. I am just a buy one-play one, indie-loving guy.
What mostly stops me from buying titles I don’t play directly is going through the list of all the other things I may need/want to buy with the same money.
Regarding the most, category/publisher sales are back-to-back in between the seasonal ones, so yes, I think they are most of them.